Tag: Newcastle Clean Air Zone
5 months ago
chroniclelive.co.uk

Newcastle Clean Air Zone generates more than £2 million from tolls and fines in first year

Almost 70,000 toll payments have been made and more than 43,000 fines issued in the year since the Newcastle Clean Ai...

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7 months ago
chroniclelive.co.uk

Newcastle Clean Air Zone: Grant funding rules to change after drivers struggle

Some small businesses and taxi drivers have complained that they have been unable to get help in upgrading their vehi...

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7 months ago
chroniclelive.co.uk

Tory mayoral candidate wants to scrap Newcastle Clean Air Zone tolls

Guy Renner-Thompson says he would seek to abolish the anti-pollution tolls if elected next May, but the councils in c...

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8 months ago
chroniclelive.co.uk

More than £13m of Newcastle Clean Air Zone's vehicle upgrade money still unspent after a year

Latest figures from Newcastle City Council confirm that less than 500 grants have been paid out since November last y...

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8 months ago
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Van driver warns motorists to beware online Newcastle Clean Air Zone payment scams

Jeff Pickthall fears that drivers could be fooled by a dodgy website which asks for a £14 toll payment even for cars ...

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9 months ago
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Newcastle food bank pleads for council U-turn after being denied exemption from Clean Air Zone tolls

The Kenton Food Bank racked up a heavy bill from 32 fines for driving in the Clean Air Zone, believing they would be ...

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11 months ago
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People's Kitchen goes electric after ditching old van to avoid £12.50 per day Clean Air Zone tolls

The city centre-based charity has swapped out its old 2016 van because it would have fallen foul of Newcastle's new r...

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11 months ago
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Business owner calls for change in Newcastle Clean Air Zone toll after being charged twice in one...

Nigel Kirkup says that the midnight cut-off point for the charges has a disproportionate impact on businesses working...

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12 months ago
chroniclelive.co.uk

Newcastle Clean Air Zone: £12.50 tolls for high-polluting vans start on Monday

In the first change to the Clean Air Zone's charges since it launched, non-compliant vans and LGVs now face daily fee...

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about 1 year ago
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Newcastle Clean Air Zone: Van drivers urged to prepare for tolls as report reveals grant funding ...

Latest figures show that no van drivers have yet been successful in getting funding to upgrade to newer, cleaner vehi...

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about 1 year ago
chroniclelive.co.uk

Newcastle Clean Air Zone text scam warning after drivers get hoax message asking for toll payment

Council bosses have urged people to be vigilant after reports of a scam text message requesting a £3 payment

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about 1 year ago
chroniclelive.co.uk

Newcastle Clean Air Zone: Accusation of 'secret plan' to put new toll on car drivers branded 'sca...

A Labour transport chief insisted on Wednesday that private cars "are not in the CAZ and they will not be in the CAZ"...

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about 1 year ago
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Newcastle Clean Air Zone: Coach firm's anger over 'crazy' restrictions on vehicle upgrade grants

Phoenix Coaches provides home to school transport for special needs children in Newcastle, but cannot get financial h...

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about 1 year ago
chroniclelive.co.uk

Newcastle Clean Air Zone July date confirmed for start of £12.50 daily tolls for vans

The next phase of the Clean Air Zone will see vans and LGVs charged to enter Newcastle city centre if they do not com...

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about 1 year ago
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Only 52 vehicle upgrade grants issued through Newcastle Clean Air Zone — despite almost 3,000 app...

Five months after applications for funding to help purchase less-polluting vehicles that will not be subject to the c...

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over 1 year ago
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Newcastle Clean Air Zone: More than 1,600 drivers fined in first month for not paying city centre...

The Clean Air Zone raked in more than £50,000 of income in its first month from toll payments and penalty charge noti...

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over 1 year ago
chroniclelive.co.uk

'We are getting no help at all': South Tyneside taxi drivers' anger over Newcastle Clean Air Zone

Taxi drivers outside of Newcastle, Gateshead, and North Tyneside are not eligible for support to help with the cost o...

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over 1 year ago
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'Cowardly' and 'repugnant' – Fury at spate of Nazi symbol graffiti across Newcastle

Swastikas have been seen this week in the city centre, opposite the Freeman Hospital, and next to the A1

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over 1 year ago
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Outrage as Nazi swastika symbol sprayed in graffiti attacking Newcastle Clean Air Zone tolls

The offensive graffiti was spotted on Wednesday on one of the main routes into Newcastle city centre, two days after ...

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over 1 year ago
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Newcastle Clean Air Zone: Tyneside reacts as city centre pollution tolls finally come into force

The worst-polluting buses, coaches, taxis, and HGVs are now subject to daily tolls of up to £50 to drive into or thro...

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over 1 year ago
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Worries that Newcastle Clean Air Zone will push pollution towards homes near A1

Monday marked the start of the new Clean Air Zone tolls, but some councillors worry that the measures will make their...

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over 1 year ago
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Newcastle Clean Air Zone: One week to go until city centre pollution tolls are launched

The first tolls from the Newcastle Clean Air Zone will be issued next Monday, January 30

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over 1 year ago
chroniclelive.co.uk

Taxi boss claims Clean Air Zone could turn Newcastle into 'ghost town'

The boss of Blueline Taxis has alleged that the new anti-pollution tolls due to come into force at the end of this mo...

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